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Installing Software using Collection Commander

Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:25:00 +0000

In the past days I had to provision a number of clients for testing purposes. A specific set of software also needed to be installed on these clients. At our company when deploying software to computers, the deployment for none mandatory software is always set to “Available” so that users can choose themselves when to install the software via the Software Center.

I did not want to logon to each machine and initiate the installation manually nor did i want to create a separate “required” deployment to install the software on these systems. Instead I wrote a few lines of PowerShell code and triggered them using collection commander. I must admit its a bit of a quick and dirty approach but it did the job in just a few minutes.

ToolTip: Collection Commander

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:34:05 +0000

Collection Commander

Hey there, today I’d like to talk about an awesome tool called Collection Commander. If you’re working with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager you probably know Client Center. Now Client Center is also a very cool tool, but it only allows you to work on one client. Collection Commander allows you to do things on multiple clients at the same time. Oh and before I forget, Collection Commander is created by System Center MVP Roger Zander, the same guy who creates Client Center. Just in case you are not using System Center Configuration Manager, don’t walk away. While Collection Commander plays nicely with the System Center Configuration Manager Console, it also works without it.